Landlord.

However, hardly any other American style IPA I've tried has got me particularly excited and most of them I feel have very little in the way of hop aroma/flavour - it's just a lot of bitterness and not very much else to me.

Recently I've had 13 Guns (which I enjoyed but couldn't pick out much in the way of flavour) and Drygate (I picked out a bit more hop flavour).

However, I'm keen to get hold of some that might be my cup of tea. I've picked up a Fourpure Session IPA from Tesco this lunchtime because it lists the hops it uses, and there's a shop about 10mins walk from the office with a massive craft beer selection. I welcome any recommendations.

However, hardly any other American style IPA I've tried has got me particularly excited and most of them I feel have very little in the way of hop aroma/flavour - it's just a lot of bitterness and not very much else to me.

Recently I've had 13 Guns (which I enjoyed but couldn't pick out much in the way of flavour) and Drygate (I picked out a bit more hop flavour).

However, I'm keen to get hold of some that might be my cup of tea. I've picked up a Fourpure Session IPA from Tesco this lunchtime because it lists the hops it uses, and there's a shop about 10mins walk from the office with a massive craft beer selection. I welcome any recommendations.

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I've had the Fourpure 'Session IPA' from M&S and it's fantastic, as you say it lists the hops : Mosaic, Simcoe, Cascade and Centennial.
3 others that I can certainly recommend, also from M&S, are Northern Monk 'New World IPA' with Chinook, Cascade, Centennial and Galaxy, Northern Monk 'Eternal Session IPA' with Simcoe and Centennial and 'White IPA', doesn't list the hops but very 'orangy' so possibly Amarillo but it does say there is orange peel in there. The first two are 330ml tins and the last one a 330ml bottle.
Enjoy :thumb:

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I am new to IPA's (sort of)...for years I picked up almost exclusively porters and stouts. I had a hoppy IPA in Cornwall and now my tastes have completely changed. Punk IPA and Goose Island I also really like myself, so good choice, 13 guns is a bit meh. I really like Cloudwater's Douple IPA's, they are coming out too often for me to keep track of at the moment though and are obviously strong being DIPA's, though they don't taste the 9% or so they usually are. I really like Founder's All Day IPA, Magic Rock's Cannonball, Stone IPA, some of the Vocation Brewery ones- Life and Death, Pride and Joy are good, Lagunita's is okay (which you can get in Wetherspoon's, along with Flying Dog's Snake Dog which is good and about 7% worth), I had a can of 2 Road's "Lil Heaven" session IPA and there was loads of flavour there for 4.8% the other day... there's probably loads more I can't remember as it's my drink of choice now, though strictly speaking I prefer the American Hop Bomb type. Bengali Tiger and Resin by Sixpoint in Spoons are good, Brewdog's Jack Hammer....I'll stop there!

Landlord.

I had a couple of IPAs from the hand pump which were ok when I was in Wetherspoons last week. Can't remember their names either.

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The wetherspoons winter ale festival was p1ss poor this year cant remember a good one that I had and that I think was sadly down to all the guest ales comprising of only british hops,as I said p1ss poor

Landlord.

The wetherspoons winter ale festival was p1ss poor this year cant remember a good one that I had and that I think was sadly down to all the guest ales comprising of only british hops,as I said p1ss poor

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It was the number of "foreign" beers which were actually brewed by Shepherds Neame and Marstons that I wasn't too happy about. Both the IPAs I had fell into that category. Both used "new world" hops though.

Landlord.

It was the number of "foreign" beers which were actually brewed by Shepherds Neame and Marstons that I wasn't too happy about. Both the IPAs I had fell into that category. Both used "new world" hops though.

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Still have the festival pamphlet and it does state ALL the guest ales were brewed with British hops, and boy couldn't you just tell

However, hardly any other American style IPA I've tried has got me particularly excited and most of them I feel have very little in the way of hop aroma/flavour - it's just a lot of bitterness and not very much else to me.

Recently I've had 13 Guns (which I enjoyed but couldn't pick out much in the way of flavour) and Drygate (I picked out a bit more hop flavour).

However, I'm keen to get hold of some that might be my cup of tea. I've picked up a Fourpure Session IPA from Tesco this lunchtime because it lists the hops it uses, and there's a shop about 10mins walk from the office with a massive craft beer selection. I welcome any recommendations.